Tase Matsunaga

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - DEATHS

November 20, 1998

Matsunaga, the woman known to be Japan's oldest person, died Wednesday. She was 114. Matsunaga, born May 11, 1884, was a farmer. She lived with her daughter, now 86, in Tokyo until she moved into Mutsumien in 1983. Yasu Akino, 113, of Shizuoka Prefecture, about 95 miles west of Tokyo, is now the country's oldest person, the Kyodo News agency said.

PADDY CLANCY

Clancy, who sang with the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the influential Irish folk group of the 1950s and 1960s, has died at age 76. Paddy Clancy died Nov. 11 after a long illness at his home in the County Waterford town of Carrick-on-Suir in southeast Ireland, according to death notices this week in Irish newspapers. It was in New York in 1959 at the beginning of the folk music boom that the Clancy brothers and their friend Makem formed their group. They performed in Greenwich Village clubs and appeared at Newport folk festivals with such people as Judy Collins and Pete Seeger. Brother Bobby Clancy also occasionally sang with the group, which was considered a major influence on the current folk music revival in Ireland. They made more than 50 records. After touring for about nine years as The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Paddy Clancy struck out on his own. The musicians remained friends, and they got together again in 1993 for the Madison Square Garden concert honoring Bob Dylan's 30 years in music. Tommy Clancy died in 1990.